Driver Freed at Sessions Lisarow Stealing Charge Fails
Trotting harness and a motor-tyre were exhibits at Newcastle Sessions when Hilton Clyde Stockdale, 35, motor-lorry driver, was charged with…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Safe Robbery Defendants Guarded By Police
SYDNEY.—Police guards closely attended two defendants in the Central Police Court when the story of an alleged armed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death-Car Carried Three Men: Latest Police Discovery
SYDNEY.—With the murdered man in the driver's seat, the car of Myles Henry ("Face") McKeon was steered 300 yards by another man to the place where it was found. THIS is the latest discovery by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Told of Secret Russo-German Pact
NUREMBERG, April 1. A.A.P.—Despite the Russian Prosecutor's objections, the President of the War Crimes Tribunal (Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Appeal for Help in Murder Case
SYDNEY.—Detectives investigating the murder of Myles Henry ("Face") McKeon today made an appeal for any person…
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Two miners, William J. Ward, 27, and Arthur E. Pearson, 48 were charged at Newcastle Police Court with stealing at Cardiff, 1504 lb…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—Darcy Ezekiel Dugan, 25, and Henry James Mitchell, 23, who were committed for trial last week on charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
FURTHER REMAND.—The Police Prosecutor (Sergeant W. G. Wallace) applied for a further remand until Friday in the case of Cyril Gordon Charlton, 19,…
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After a retirement of five hours, the jury relumed a verdict of not guilty in the re-trial at Newcastle Quarter Sessions of Herbert James…
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A man who stole a taxi-cab from a garage at Mayfield was sentenced to three years' hard labor by Judge Nield at…
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For an act of indecency at Federal Park, Wallsend, yesterday, James Burgess, 36, cleaner, was sentenced to a month's gaol at Newcastle Police…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Indecent Assault On Boy Alleged
Arising out of an incident alleged to have occurred at Toronto baths on December 2 last, Clifford Denby Foster, 23, laborer, appeared at…
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Charged at Newcastle Police Court with fraudulently converting to his own use two cheques for £34 17s 6d and £23 6s 3d at Scone, and stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
BODILY HARM CASE.—Constable C. A. Scott, of Stockton. on the night of March 25, after he had received a complaint, found a man in a house in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Special Magistrate for C.c.c. Disputes
CANBERRA, Wed.—A special industrial magistrate would be appointed in Sydney to deal with any disputes under the Commonwealth…
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WASHINGTON, April 3. A.A.P.—Two killers broke out of the "death row" of the District of Columbia gaol after having seized the…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—Joseph Medley (44), one of two murderers who escaped from the "death row" of District of Columbia Gaol yesterday, was recaptured by police today. Revealing how the escape was made, Police Guard H. C. Davis said…
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EVIDENCE of a bygone murder was suspected yesterday when a workman discovered a cavity filled with bones behind the mantelpiece…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Guarded by a strong force of police, retail butchers at the Brisbane abattoir this morning loaded meat…
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Taxi-driver members of Newcastle branch of the Transport Workers' Union last night decided to ask the Police Department to make…
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